 | John Romain Rood - 1906 - 648 lapas
...rule of law, as we understand it, is this : A man is not to be excused from responsibility, if he has capacity and reason sufficient to enable him to distinguish...between right and wrong as to the particular act he is then doing, — a knowledge and consciousness that the act he is doing is wrong and criminal, and... | |
 | Burton Egbert Stevenson - 1907 - 332 lapas
...right from wrong is the usual test. No man is excused from responsibility for a crime, if he has the capacity and reason sufficient to enable him to distinguish...between right and wrong, as to the particular act he is then doing." I fancied I heard the clergyman breathe a sigh of relief. "A person, then, may be sane... | |
 | William Ephraim Mikell - 1908 - 638 lapas
...power to choose between them. On the contrary, they presuppose "sufficient mental capacity and reason to enable him to distinguish between right and wrong as to the particular act," and still declare him irresponsible if, by reason of mental disease, he did not have "sufficient will... | |
 | James Parker Hall, James De Witt Andrews - 1910 - 460 lapas
...Chief Justice Shaw in a Massachusetts case : "A man is not to be excused from responsibility, if he has capacity and reason sufficient to enable him to distinguish...between right and wrong as to the particular act he is then doing — a knowledge and consciousness that the act he is doing is wrong and criminal, and... | |
 | 1914 - 1332 lapas
...plea of insanity the question for determination is, whether accused bad capacity and sufficient reason to enable him to distinguish between right and wrong as to the particular act, and a knowledge and consciousness that the act was wrong and criminal. [Ed. Note. — For other cases,... | |
 | Joseph Henry Beale - 1915 - 1076 lapas
...thjs : A man is not to be excused frOm<re8ponfliHlit-,yi if ''" hnH »ftpi»'it.y~~anf1 raisnn " < to enable him to distinguish between right and wrong as to the particular act he is then doing.- — a knowle^^^m^! i-rtnmMmisiiuhb lliat tho~ act ne is (lolng is_wrong and criminal,_and... | |
 | William Ephraim Mikell - 1915 - 288 lapas
...is not entitled to acquittal on the ground of insanity if at the time of the alleged offense he had capacity and reason sufficient to enable him to distinguish between right and wrong, and understood tjie nature, character, and consequence of his act, and had mentaj power sufficient... | |
 | Tennessee. Supreme Court, William Wilcox Cooke, Joseph Brown Heiskell, Jere Baxter, Benjamin James Lea, George Wesley Pickle, Charles Theodore Cates, Frank Marian Thompson, Charles Le Sueur Cornelius, Roy Hood Beeler - 1916 - 874 lapas
...on this subject it was said: "The inquiry under the plea of insanity was whether the defendant had capacity and reason sufficient to enable him to distinguish...a knowledge and consciousness that the act he was doing was wrong . . . and would subject him to punishment." Bond v. State, 129 Tenn. (2 Thomp.), 75-83,... | |
 | Joseph Wheless - 1917 - 1112 lapas
...plea of insanity the question for determination is, whether accused had capacity and sufficient reason to enable him to distinguish between right and wrong as to the particular act, and a knowledge atvl consciousness that the act was wrong and criminal. Bond v. State, 129 Tenn. 75,... | |
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... doing, a knowledge and consciousness that the act he is doing is wrong and criminal, and will subject him to punishment. In order to be responsible he must have sufficient power of memory to recollect the relation in which he stands... 
